Project Delivery Contracts in the North of England

Project Delivery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Project Delivery skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Project Delivery over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 58 54
Rank change year-on-year -11 -4 -11
Contract jobs citing Project Delivery 115 154 201
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.35% 3.18% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 3.80% 4.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 104 158
10th Percentile £363 £334 £354
25th Percentile £391 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £503
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +4.48% +2.03%
75th Percentile £532 £600 £588
90th Percentile £600 £669 £700
England median daily rate £525 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 4
10th Percentile £32.10 £30.63 £33.88
25th Percentile £48.00 £37.19 £37.81
Median hourly rate £70.16 £48.75 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.92% +17.47% +106.83%
75th Percentile £76.88 £59.69 £54.23
90th Percentile £78.00 £65.88 £71.73
England median hourly rate £65.00 £33.47 £57.50
% change year-on-year +94.23% -41.80% +29.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Project Delivery falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,085 4,055 4,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.76% 83.69% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,991 2,411 3,372
10th Percentile £276 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.20% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £669 £688
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 395 209
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.09 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.93 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -16.00% +30.96%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £43.39
90th Percentile £76.63 £63.75 £56.38
England median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +4.17% +40.19%

Project Delivery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Project Delivery as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Project Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Project Delivery in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Project Delivery in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Project Delivery in the North of England

Project Delivery
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Project Delivery within the North of England region over the 6 months to 13 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -11 69 £450 -19.64% 261
Yorkshire +15 41 £450 - 144
North East -12 5 £363 -33.18% 77
Project Delivery
England

Project Delivery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (9.57%) Confluence
2 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.61%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (0.87%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.87%) CMS
4 1 (0.87%) Drupal
4 1 (0.87%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (7.83%) Microsoft Office
1 9 (7.83%) MS Visio
2 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (5.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (6.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.87%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.87%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.87%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 21 (18.26%) Azure
2 13 (11.30%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (6.96%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.09%) AWS
4 7 (6.09%) IaaS
5 6 (5.22%) SaaS
6 2 (1.74%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.74%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.74%) Google Workspace
6 2 (1.74%) ShareGate
6 2 (1.74%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.87%) Azure AKS
7 1 (0.87%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (0.87%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (0.87%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.87%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.87%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.87%) OCI
7 1 (0.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (11.30%) Firewall
1 13 (11.30%) Network Security
2 9 (7.83%) VPN
3 7 (6.09%) Intrusion Detection
3 7 (6.09%) LAN
4 4 (3.48%) BGP
4 4 (3.48%) OSPF
5 3 (2.61%) DNS
5 3 (2.61%) EIGRP
5 3 (2.61%) IPsec
5 3 (2.61%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.61%) WAN
6 2 (1.74%) Intranet
6 2 (1.74%) SD-WAN
6 2 (1.74%) SSL
6 2 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.87%) NAS
7 1 (0.87%) SNA
7 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.96%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (1.74%) Big Data
2 2 (1.74%) GIS
2 2 (1.74%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.87%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.87%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.87%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.87%) Looker
3 1 (0.87%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (0.87%) Parquet
3 1 (0.87%) Power BI
3 1 (0.87%) RDBMS
3 1 (0.87%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (8.70%) JIRA
2 2 (1.74%) Git
General
1 47 (40.87%) Social Skills
2 41 (35.65%) Finance
3 21 (18.26%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (12.17%) Presentation Skills
5 12 (10.43%) Influencing Skills
6 11 (9.57%) Banking
7 9 (7.83%) Public Sector
8 8 (6.96%) Manufacturing
9 7 (6.09%) Retail
9 7 (6.09%) Telecoms
10 6 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (4.35%) Publishing
12 4 (3.48%) Military
13 3 (2.61%) Automotive
13 3 (2.61%) Marketing
14 2 (1.74%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.87%) General Ledger
15 1 (0.87%) Legal
15 1 (0.87%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (23.48%) Project Manager
2 14 (12.17%) Analyst
3 13 (11.30%) Senior
4 10 (8.70%) IT Manager
5 9 (7.83%) IT Project Manager
5 9 (7.83%) Network Engineer
6 8 (6.96%) Delivery Manager
6 8 (6.96%) Lead
7 7 (6.09%) Consultant
7 7 (6.09%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.22%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
9 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support
9 5 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.35%) Desktop Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Desktop Support
9 5 (4.35%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 5 (4.35%) Infrastructure Manager
9 5 (4.35%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.48%) EntireX
2 2 (1.74%) CSS
2 2 (1.74%) HTML
2 2 (1.74%) Middleware
3 1 (0.87%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.87%) ADO
3 1 (0.87%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.87%) Apache NiFi
3 1 (0.87%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.87%) FastAPI
3 1 (0.87%) Kafka
3 1 (0.87%) Matplotlib
3 1 (0.87%) Pandas
3 1 (0.87%) PySpark
3 1 (0.87%) React
3 1 (0.87%) scikit-learn
3 1 (0.87%) TensorFlow
3 1 (0.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.09%) Data Centre
3 5 (4.35%) Virtual Team
4 4 (3.48%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (3.48%) PMI
4 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.61%) Mainframe
5 3 (2.61%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.61%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.74%) Clustering
6 2 (1.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.74%) Distributed Computing
6 2 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.74%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.87%) CMDB
7 1 (0.87%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.87%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.65%) Windows
2 15 (13.04%) Windows Server
3 8 (6.96%) Windows Server 2016
4 7 (6.09%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.35%) Windows 8
5 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (4.35%) Windows XP
6 4 (3.48%) Linux
7 3 (2.61%) Unix
8 2 (1.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.74%) zOS
9 1 (0.87%) AIX
9 1 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
9 1 (0.87%) Android
9 1 (0.87%) CentOS
9 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.87%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) Stakeholder Management
2 40 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (34.78%) Project Management
3 39 (33.91%) Agile
4 29 (25.22%) Change Management
5 15 (13.04%) ITIL
5 15 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 14 (12.17%) Migration
7 13 (11.30%) Business Case
7 13 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (10.43%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (10.43%) Risk Management
8 12 (10.43%) Waterfall
9 11 (9.57%) DevOps
9 11 (9.57%) Project Governance
10 10 (8.70%) Budget Management
10 10 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.83%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (7.83%) High Availability
11 9 (7.83%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (9.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.35%) Python
3 4 (3.48%) SQL
4 2 (1.74%) C#
4 2 (1.74%) Java
4 2 (1.74%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.87%) ActionScript
5 1 (0.87%) ActionScript 2.0
5 1 (0.87%) Bash
5 1 (0.87%) C
5 1 (0.87%) JCL
5 1 (0.87%) Perl
5 1 (0.87%) REXX
5 1 (0.87%) VB
5 1 (0.87%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (13.04%) Degree
2 14 (12.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (12.17%) Security Cleared
3 13 (11.30%) SC Cleared
4 9 (7.83%) Azure Certification
5 5 (4.35%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.48%) CCNP
6 4 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.48%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (3.48%) PMP
7 3 (2.61%) CCNA
7 3 (2.61%) RIBA
7 3 (2.61%) SAP Certification
8 2 (1.74%) ISTQB
8 2 (1.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.87%) MCP
9 1 (0.87%) MCSA
9 1 (0.87%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.09%) PMO
2 4 (3.48%) QA
3 2 (1.74%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.87%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (0.87%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.87%) GDPR
4 1 (0.87%) NCSC
4 1 (0.87%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (13.04%) Active Directory
2 11 (9.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (6.09%) vSphere
4 3 (2.61%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.74%) Docker
5 2 (1.74%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.74%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.74%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.87%) BitLocker
6 1 (0.87%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.87%) XenApp
6 1 (0.87%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.22%) SCCM
3 3 (2.61%) Ansible
4 2 (1.74%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.74%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.74%) Terraform
5 1 (0.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.87%) Nagios
5 1 (0.87%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.87%) Tivoli NetView
5 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.87%) vRealize
5 1 (0.87%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 30 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.30%) VMware
3 10 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 9 (7.83%) SAP
5 8 (6.96%) IBM
6 5 (4.35%) Canon
7 4 (3.48%) Cisco
7 4 (3.48%) Software AG
7 4 (3.48%) webMethods
8 3 (2.61%) HP
8 3 (2.61%) Meraki
8 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.74%) Adobe
9 2 (1.74%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.74%) Databricks
9 2 (1.74%) Google
9 2 (1.74%) McAfee
9 2 (1.74%) Nintex
9 2 (1.74%) Oracle
9 2 (1.74%) Veeam